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Nall's Glossary of East Anglian Dialect
Reprinted from 'Chapters on the East Anglian Coast', 1866
by John Greaves Nall
The best existing book on East Anglian dialect, with etymology, comparative examples from other counties and countries, quotations to illustrate use, and many interesting reflections on the history of words - all by a Derbyshire man who fell in love with Norfolk and Suffolk! (232 pp. 400g. ISBN 978 1 904006 34 3) £12.50

A Researcher's Glossary
of words found in historical documents of East Anglia
compiled by David Yaxley
This glossary is the result of forty years of delving in the archives of Norfolk and Suffolk. It gives the meaning of words that frequently crop up in wills and inventories, domestic accounts, and churchwardens records, with quotations from documents so that readers may understand the contemporary use of the words. It is illustrated by contemporary prints and some fine drawings by the authors. ISBN 978 1 904006 13 8. Price £11.50

Your affectionate and loving sister the correspondence of Elizabeth Postlethwaite 
and Barbara Kerrich 1733-51, ed. Nigel Surrey. (144pp. 20 b & w photos, 3 maps) Letters from the times of Walpole and Townshend, delightful gossipy exchanges sent between Denton and Dersingham by two devoted sisters, carrying news of births and deaths, food and fashions, miscarriages and marriages. ISBN 978 0 948400 92 6. £7.25.

A Turning of Keys - Poets and Norfolk 1460-1991
Peter J. Beer
Fourteen poets are here, each with a biography and specimen poems to whet the appetite for more. Their connections with the country of Norfolk are as varied as the men themselves: Skelton preached, Tusser farmed, Borrow and Auden were educated; Cowper and Swinburne in different ways recuperated; Greene caroused and Taylor sailed around our treacherous coast. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey; lived here in splendour, George Barker in poverty. Hood was inspired by a Norfolk arrest; Corbett was Bishop; Shadwell was born at Santon Hall and Mottram, a distinguished citizen and Mayor, lived and wrote in Norwich. They shared the gift of poetry. ISBN 978 1 904006 14 5 Price £6.95

 

The Song o' Sorlomun translated by Revd E. Gillett. (32 pp., weight 100g.) 
On facing pages 'The Song of Solomon' in the Authorised Version and 'The Song o' Sorlomun' in Norfolk dialect. ISBN 978 0 948400 21 6. £2.50.

Broader Norfolk A quizzionary of essential Norfolk, by David Stannard 
Dialect quizzes with long informative answers to make sure you understand about liggers, harnsers, tittermatorters and bishy-barnabees - half quiz book half dictionary. Illustrated by George Smith. Price £4.95. 200g. ISBN 978 1 904006 03 9.

The Novels of Mary E. Mann
Mary Rackham was born in Norwich in 1848 and moved to Shropham when she married Fairman Mann a farmer, in 1871. When their income from farming declined, she wrote 39 novels and many short stories to supplement their income. They were immensely popular in her day and admired by D. H. Lawrence, but they have been out of print for a century. Her writing shows an unrivalled knowledge of Norfolk village life, dialect and mind-set. Three of these novels are now back in print and we hope there will soon be more.

The Parish of Hilby (208 pp. 350g ISBN 987 1 904006 41 1)

Her first novel, 'the only one I ever wrote without conscious or more or less painful effort'. A first-hand account of life in a Norfolk village in the 1880s with a good love story to keep you turning the pages. Price £9.50

The Patten Experiment (128pp. 250g ISBN 978 1 904006 33 7)
A family of well-to-do young people attempt to live on the labourers' wage of 11s. a week in a tied cottage, and quickly come to grief. First published 1899 £7.50

Rose at Honeypot (144pp. 300g ISBN 978 1 904006 36 7)
Searching for rural simplicity and charm, Rose finds herself in the household of Dan Jaggerd, who is lazy, unfaithful to his wife, a drunkard, a thief and brutal to his children. The young gamekeeper, Lorry, however, is more attractive. First published 1906 £7.50

And now the Short Stories

The Complete Tales of Dulditch

by Mary E. Mann

Foreword by D.J.Taylor. Introduction by Patience Tomlinson.

Thirty-two sparely written stories of Dulditch (based on Shropham, Norfolk)  at the turn of the nineteenth century, reprinted together for the first time. Two earlier reprints contained different , but overlapping, selections of the stories. This volume contains all of these plus ten others gleaned from other Mary Mann collections.

Patience Tomlinson says: 'Each one of them is like a perfect one-act play,a small masterpiece of both tragedy and comedy.

Adrian Bell said: 'The people are more real to me than Hardy's.'

D. J. Taylor says: 'In her chosen form she is one of the greatest talents of the late-Victorian age. This is a substantial claim, but I have never met anybody compelled to read Little Brother, Wolf Charlie or Dora o' the Ringolets' who didn't share it.'

Price £11.50  (272 pp. ISBN 978 1 904006 43 5)

And now Mary E. Mann's comic masterpiece

Astray in Arcady

Introduction by Patience Tomlinson

Charlotte Poole, a London novelist, descends upon Dulditch to 'study the native at first hand'. The characters of the village provide much material for her dry wit, expressed in letters to her son and her friend, Hildred.

Charlotte Poole, the flamboyant narrator of this novel, is a delicious creation, undoubtedly something of a self-portrait.' Patience Tomlinson 

Great fun! 

£9.50

ISBN 978 1 904006 50 3

 

 


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